Project Gutenberg 2023-11-15 Public domain in the USA. 155 Oswald, Felix L. (Felix Leopold) 1845 1906 Oswald, F. L. (Felix Leopold) Oswald, Felix Leopold The Bible of nature : $b or, The principles of secularism. A contribution to the religion of the future $aNew York :$bThe Truth Seeker Company, $c1888. Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Bible of Nature; or, The Principles of Secularism" by Felix L. Oswald is a philosophical treatise written in the late 19th century. This work argues for a new "Religion of Nature" that contrasts sharply with traditional supernatural religions, advocating for secularism grounded in natural laws and human instincts. Oswald critiques the historical suppression of science and reason by religious institutions, proposing that true enlightenment and moral guidelines should derive from nature rather than dogma. The opening portion establishes a historical critique of religious influences on human development, suggesting that the duality of superstition and antinaturalism has hindered human progress and well-being. Oswald outlines how past religions have fostered mental and physical degeneration through doctrines that reject natural instincts, emphasizing the need for a new secular philosophy that promotes health, knowledge, and human rights. He introduces the foundational principles of physical, mental, and moral maxims, which aim to reclaim the divine aspects of human experience from the grasp of oppressive beliefs, ultimately asserting that humanity's future lies in embracing reason and our innate instincts. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/bibleofnatureorp00oswa/page/n8/mode/2up 20200404051403oswald 1888 US Reading ease score: 40.4 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Secularism BL Text Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Religion/Spirituality 475440 2025-07-28T13:05:38.686951 text/html 440945 2023-11-15T16:53:21 text/html 404067 2025-07-28T13:05:49.021923 application/epub+zip 422455 2025-07-28T13:05:41.503049 application/epub+zip 257880 2025-07-28T13:05:40.106967 application/epub+zip 657013 2025-07-28T13:05:54.392911 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 594786 2025-07-28T13:05:47.749938 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385672 2025-07-28T13:05:37.441065 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 365688 2023-11-15T16:53:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15968 2025-07-28T13:05:54.569857 application/rdf+xml 18288 2025-07-28T13:05:40.265982 image/jpeg 2862 2025-07-28T13:05:40.186942 image/jpeg 369301 2025-07-28T13:05:38.743021 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia